Blast from the past.

I got a blast from the blast when I was told about a paper from 1999 that seemed to make some superfical statements about GPS tracking using Packet Radio. The paper is available on a Canadian Uni Site.

Reading through it there are statements such as "In March 1999, Greg Jones stated that...". Well, I know Greg Jones, and have known him since 1997. Wow. He is the former president of TAPR of which I am a board member. Cute. The I read more. And I see a map from the WinAPRS software. Ok. Looks a bit dated, but those were the maps available at the time.

Then I read a bit further, and they mention "Mr Darryl Smith, VK2TDS", and I am really impressed. My client was raving about this paper, and the paper mentioned me. Look further. It turns out that they included a screen shot of software I wrote. I am amazed. Even better, it turns out all the maps in the paper were produced using my software - software I was giving away.

I used LookOut to search through my email and found a few emails back in 1999 from the author asking about my software and noting some bugs. But he never did tell me that he had published my name. Gosh.